Question - The following information is for the standard and actual costs for Chesapeake Bay Corporation.
Standard Costs:
Budgeted units of production - 16,000 (80% of capacity)
Standard labor hours per unit - 4
Standard labor rate $26 per hour
Standard material per unit - 8 lbs.
Standard material cost - $ 12 per lb.
Budgeted fixed overhead $640,000
Standard variable overhead rate - $15 per labor hour.
Fixed overhead rate is based on budgeted labor hours at 80% capacity.
Actual Cost:
Actual production - 16,500 units
Actual fixed overhead - $640,000
Actual variable overhead - $1,000,000
Actual labor - 65,000 hours, total labor costs $1,700,000
Actual material purchased and used - 130,000 lbs, total material cost $1,600,000
Actual variable overhead - $1,000,000
Determine:
(a) The quantity variance, price variance, and total direct materials cost variance;
(b) The time variance, rate variance, and total direct labor cost variance; and
(c) The volume variance, controllable variance, and total factory overhead cost variance.